Eastern Visayas
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
|
| Regional center | Tacloban City, Leyte |
|---|---|
| Population | 3,610,355 |
| – Density | 168.5 per km² |
| Area | 21,431.6 km² |
| Divisions | |
| – Provinces | 6 |
| – Cities | 4 |
| – Municipalities | 139 |
| – Barangays | 4,390 |
| – Cong. districts | 12 |
| Languages | Waray-Waray, Cebuano, Abaknon |
Eastern Visayas is one of the regions of the Philippines and is designated as Region VIII. It consists of six provinces, namely, Biliran, Eastern Samar, Leyte, Northern Samar, Samar (Western Samar) and Southern Leyte. These provinces occupy the easternmost islands of Visayas: Leyte, Samar and Biliran. The regional center is Tacloban City, one of two cities of Leyte. Calbayog City is the lone city in Samar, one of the oldest in the country.
[edit] Political Divisions
| Province | Capital | Population (2000) |
Area (km²) |
Pop. density (per km²) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Biliran | Naval | 140,274 | 555.4 | 252.6 |
 |
Eastern Samar | Borongan | 375,822 | 4,339.6 | 86.6 |
 |
Leyte | Tacloban City | 1,592,336 | 5,712.8 | 278.7 |
 |
Northern Samar | Catarman | 500,639 | 3,498.0 | 143.1 |
 |
Samar | Catabalogan | 641,124 | 5,591.0 | 114.7 |
 |
Southern Leyte | Maasin City | 360,160 | 1,734.8 | 207.6 |
[edit] Component Cities
[edit] Languages
Waray-Waray is spoken on the island of Samar, eastern Biliran and the eastern part of the province of Leyte while Cebuano is spoken in the rest of Leyte, western Biliran, as well as in the province of Southern Leyte; both of these languages are called Visayan by their speakers. A Sama language, distantly related to the languages of the region, called Abaknon is spoken in the island of Capul in Northern Samar.
